After reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help learners make connections between the book and their community with this engaging extension activity.

What is going on in this picture? Have fun with this picture writing prompt, a great way to boost creativity in your young writer.

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

There are many ways that writers can add voice to their writing, including dialect, emotion, word choice, and ALL CAPS.

Learn more about your students' favorite school subjects with this engaging opinion writing prompt and rubric. Students will contemplate their favorite subject while they fill out the pre-writing planner, then they'll write out their essay on page two.

Uh-oh! The punctuation has gone missing, and we need your students' help editing these personal narratives! By looking closely at a punctuation-less narrative, students practice using correct end punctuation in this fun worksheet.

Use this mid-year assessment to catch a glimpse of your young writers’ style and voice, while simultaneously assessing their skills within the informational writing genre.

Young writers practice crafting interesting, well rounded characters for their stories with this character planning template.

Does your child have a wild imagination? Give them a fun outlet with a creative writing prompt! This one asks them to imagine a hidden door they've discovered.

This critical thinking worksheet, part of our upcoming A Day in the Life of the President workbook, challenges kids to plain their own campaign tour!

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, let students use their creativity to model the two main settings from the story!

Time to play detective! Can you describe what happened int his scene, just by looking at the picture? Practice making inferences by looking at context.

Write about the main idea and supporting details in this worksheet. This worksheet will help your kid organize her thoughts and describe details.

Do your students know that sentences can be stretched out using prepositional phrases? When this happens, sentences have a greater depth of meaning!

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

Learners will gather information about the traditions their families celebrate throughout the year, and pick one tradition to learn more about.

This worksheet challenges first graders to find out the main idea of the passage.

Is your child "stuck" without a good story starter? Behold the Awful Epoxy, a sticky super villain.

Help students to think critically and practice their writing skills with this thoughtful writing prompt based on a quote by poet Julia Alvarez.

Children will learn how and when to use quotation marks in dialogue and titles, then practice what they have learned.

What is your favorite part of Thanksgiving? Answer this question and more in this exercise that allows you to practice sentence writing.

Use this reading and writing worksheet to teach first and second grade students about Angela Davis and her life as an activist, writer, and scholar.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

Ever wish you could breathe underwater? This creative writing prompt asks your child to imagine if humans could live underwater!

Many famous mythical creatures tend to reflect the geography of the land around their country of origin. What does your hometown monster look like?

Help kids get a leg up on writing practice! These sentence starters will boost their storytelling skills and help them practice handwriting as they go.

Next time you're outside, go on a treasure hunt with this activity from PBS KIDS' Dinsosaur Train. Then, write all about your nature treasure loot!

Up, up, and away! Kids love to explore new places! Use this awesome travel writing template as a launching point for your students to hone their writing and editing skills.

Help students learn how to recognize the beats in a poem with this worksheet.

Children are guided through the process of writing clear, well supported arguments with this writing template.